Popular historian Niall Ferguson tells Stephen Jewell how television democratises knowledge and why colonialism wasn't all bad.

Daniel Craig has been signed up to replace famed broadcaster Sir David Attenborough as the voice of Britain's BBC nature documentaries.

A new venture in Denniston allows visitors to step back 100 years to experience life in the coal mines, complete with ghostly visions and echoes of another era, writes Jim Eagles.

"We have a lot more to remember than you people will ever have." A World War II veteran, speaking on radio last Tuesday.

A monument built to celebrate friendship between Turkey and Armenia is being dismantled.

Six striking American cars from a period spanning 40 years are among 27 classic vehicles that will go under the hammer in Sydney on May 2.

Sherpa mountaineer Nawang Gombu, the youngest member of the climbing team that first scaled Mount Everest, has died.

It makes Alfrieda Thompson smile wryly that her war-hero father named her after a girlfriend he had during World War I.

With flames spreading rapidly though his bomber aircraft, 22-year-old Sergeant Jimmy Ward tied a rope around his waist and crawled out on to the wing to douse the flames.

It has been easy to honour service in World War II. No other war, including World War I, has had such just cause.

The firefight between a nine-strong patrol and up to 80 Viet Cong was one of the New Zealand Army's bravest battles, facing almost insurmountable odds. Nearly 43 years later, the men of Victor 3 One platoon met again for the first time.

The history of New Zealand at war is largely one of ordinary people called upon in extraordinary times - men and women who left their day jobs when their country called them. In Kiwi Battlefields, Ron Palenski tells how one such man